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Book Synopsis Tales from the Tijuana Jails by : Sam Warren
Download or read book Tales from the Tijuana Jails written by Sam Warren and published by Bookwarren Publishing Servi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican jail in which the author was unjustly confined was like nothing any American would expect. Co-ed with young children running about, shops selling all manner of goods including drugs, condos for the privileged and others sleeping on the out in the open, It would strike anyone as bizarre as the bar in the first Star Wars movie. Inside the 20 foot concrete and barbed wire high walls, the large block in eastern Tijuana was truly a little city and each inmate there had his or her own fascinating story to tell about their encounter with the system in Mexico.
Book Synopsis Tales From The Tijuana Jails-ii by : Sam Warren
Download or read book Tales From The Tijuana Jails-ii written by Sam Warren and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a three-year stint in Mexico's most corrupt prison, Warren documented the stories of many other prisoners, some whom were also unjustly incarcerated.
Download or read book El Latigo written by Michael A. Johnson and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the story El Latigo (Spanish for The Whip), the author recalls a 1967 incident in Tijuana, Mexico, when he and a couple of his rowdy Navy buddies decided to kick up their heels. The other stories, like Subic Bay Broncs, which took place on the Subic Bay Navy Station in the Philippine Islands between 1967 and 1968, were inspired by other outdoor adventures, while Coup and In the Face of Death sprang totally from the authors imagination.
Download or read book The Prison Angel written by Mary Jordan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually moved into a cell to live among drug king pins and petty thieves. She has led many of them through profound spiritual transformations in which they turned away from their lives of crime, and has deeply touched the lives of all who have witnessed the depth of her compassion. Donning a nun's habit, she became Mother Antonia, renowned as "the prison angel," and has now organized a new community of sisters-the Servants of the Eleventh Hour—widows and divorced women seeking new meaning in their lives. "We had never heard a story like hers," Jordan and Sullivan write, "a story of such powerful goodness." Born in Beverly Hills, Clarke was raised around the glamour of Hollywood and looked like a star herself, a beautiful blonde reminiscent of Grace Kelly. The choreographer Busby Berkeley spotted her at a restaurant and offered her a job, but Mary's dream was to be a happy wife and mother. She raised seven children, but her two unfulfilling marriages ended in divorce. Then in the late 1960s, in midlife, she began devoting herself to charity work, realizing she had an extraordinary talent for drumming up donations for the sick and poor. On one charity mission across the Mexican border to the drug-trafficking capitol of Tijuana, she visited La Mesa prison and experienced an intense feeling that she had found her true life's work. As she recalls, "I felt like I had come home." Receiving the blessings of the Catholic Church for her mission, on March 19, 1977, at the age of fifty, she moved into a cell in La Mesa, sleeping on a bunk with female prisoners above and below her. Nearly twenty-eight years later she is still living in that cell, and the remarkable power of her spiritual counseling to the prisoners has become legendary. The story of both one woman's profound journey of discovery and growth and of the deep spiritual awakenings she has called forth in so many lost souls, The Prison Angel is an astonishing testament to the powers of personal transformation.
Book Synopsis Travel Tales Collections: Toilet Stories by : Michael Brein, Ph.D.
Download or read book Travel Tales Collections: Toilet Stories written by Michael Brein, Ph.D. and published by Michael Brein, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘Travel Tales Collection, Toilet Stories,’ No. 8, March 2015, is part of Michael Brein’s ‘Collections’ travel tales series and contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world. ‘Travel Tales Collections’ are groups of very interesting similar travel stories of a kind on a variety of very specific travel subjects, themes, or countries, such as close calls, great escapes, pickpocketing, scams, safety and security in travel, Paris, Morocco, Mexico, and so on. Eventually, several hundred ‘Collections’ on all sorts of specific travel subjects, themes, and countries will be available on all the major eReaders. In the previous issue of ‘Travel Tales Collections,’ No 7 Feb 2015, I included a selection of food and drink experiences that you can have in your travels. Therefore, it is only fitting, after covering food and drink travel stories, that we now turn our attention to what inevitably comes next or later, namely, the subject of toilets in travel. After all, toilet experiences are an unfortunate but essential aspect of living that, like it or no, we all must come to terms with, whether on the home front or in strange exotic foreign lands. Being often beset with culture shock issues almost at every turn, especially in third-world countries, the necessity of dealing with toilets: where to find them, what to do about them, and how to use them even, elicits from many travelers nothing less than abject terror. Thus, for instance, when ‘nature calls,’ and you have barely a clue as to what to do about it or where to go . . . well, for many, it is in the least, horribly anxiety-provoking, and for others nothing less than horrifying and debilitating. For, in the best of all possible worlds—namely, in your home—where you have your bathroom all set up just as you like it, with an ample supply of paper toilet tissue rolls, a great functioning sink, fresh, safe water, nearby reading matter—in a word—you have conveniently all the first-world accouterments for dealing with the art and science of defecation fit for a king or queen, no less, at least in your own private castle, on your own private throne! But what if you find yourself in a third-world outback where you are bluntly faced with nothing but a bare hole in the ground and with NO paper of any kind anywhere in sight? And what if there are piles of human feces and hordes of flies at just about nearly every turn and in every corner? You have the stark realization that you are not in Kansas anymore. Are you of the proper mindset to deal with all of this? Be it as it may, there is, of course, much humor surrounding the subject of toilets in travel and considerable disgust as well. In this issue we pull no punches and deal with the subject of toilets overseas head on! (Pun intended!) They say, that in travel, people often ask the same basic sorts of questions over and over again when they meet for the first time. “Where are you from?” “What do you do?” “Where are you going?” and on and on. It should not be at all surprising, therefore, that one of the typical morning topics of conversation among travelers in the third-world often is—however disgusting and revolting this may be—and maybe the number one or number two (pun intended) things travelers talk about together during their early mornings (I swear this is true!)—whether they've had a good dump or not. Or, “Did, you have diarrhea again?” Or, “Did you drink the water?” It is about all this crap, literally and figuratively; there is no escaping it. Call it all TMI (too much information), but it's about what starts you off on a good or a bad day! And it IS, after all, what you really do talk about! Some of the toilet stories I've gathered are truly hilarious, and some, sad to say, are not! It's a third-world out there, and if you are not prepared for it—BEWARE! The pages in this ebook will make you much more aware! But be forewarned: this ebook is not for the faint of heart. Oh yeah, you will laugh your “okole” (Hawaiian for ‘butt’) off, and, if you're not quite ready for it, it just might dissuade you from really, truly roughing it. However, discouraging you from third-world travel is not my purpose; rather, it is to inform you, enlighten you, and prepare you, somewhat, for the inevitable consequences of drinking the ice or water, eating unpeeled fruits or veggies, eating some street food, or crossing that stream with an open sore, any of which may have some unpleasant and unintended consequences in store for you! My advice to you is this: if you are squeamish about toilets in the third-world, perhaps you should think about making alternate travel plans! In any event, the travel tales of toilets, which follow, should help prepare you for such adventures! When nature calls you and you have NO-where to go or not much of an idea of what you can do about it, well, you will have earned yourself a place in these very pages!
Download or read book Locked Up in La Mesa written by Eldon Asp and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories from the wildest prison in Mexico!
Book Synopsis Unequal Neighbors by : Kristen Hill Maher
Download or read book Unequal Neighbors written by Kristen Hill Maher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Diego and Tijuana are the site of a national border enforcement spectacle, but they are also neighboring cities with deeply intertwined histories, cultures, and economies. In Unequal Neighbors, Kristen Hill Maher and David Carruthers shift attention from the national border to a local one, examining the role of place stigma in reinforcing actual and imagined inequalities between these cities. Widespread "bordered imaginaries" in San Diego represent it as a place of economic vitality, safety, and order, while stigmatizing Tijuana as a zone of poverty, crime, and corruption. These dualisms misrepresent complex realities on the ground, but they also have real material effects: the vision of a local border benefits some actors in the region while undermining others. Based on a wide range of original empirical materials, the book examines how asymmetries between these cities have been produced and reinforced through stigmatizing representations of Tijuana in media, everyday talk, economic relations, and local tourism discourse and practices. However, both place stigma and borders are subject to contestation, and the book also examines "debordering" practices and counter-narratives about Tijuana's image. While the details of the book are particular to this corner of the world, the kinds of processes it documents offer a window into the making of unequal neighbors more broadly. The dynamics at the Tijuana border present a framework for understanding how inequalities that manifest in cultural practices produce asymmetric borders between places.
Download or read book The Guilded Pen written by Linda Loegel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of prose and poetry by the members of the San Diego Writers/Editors Guild
Book Synopsis Little Tales of Big Jails by : Bernard O'Brien
Download or read book Little Tales of Big Jails written by Bernard O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis True Tales from Another Mexico by : Sam Quinones
Download or read book True Tales from Another Mexico written by Sam Quinones and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merges keen observation with astute interviews and storytelling in the search for an authentic modern Mexico, finding it in part with emigrants.
Book Synopsis Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tales to Inspire by : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Download or read book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tales to Inspire written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the softer side of Uncle John! Filled with hundreds of pages of extraordinary, uplifting, and motivational stories, this is the ultimate ‘feel good’ book. Down in the dumps? Maybe you need a little inspiration, courtesy of Uncle John. Your friends at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have been working hard to assemble the most uplifting collection of humor interest stories to date. Read about extraordinary moments in ordinary lives and be awed by affecting tales. So if your heart needs some warming, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Tales to Inspire is a truly unique celebration of the human spirit that is guaranteed to lift your mood. - Louis Braille's Amazing Gift - The True Story of Pay It Forward - Margaret Knight, the Female "Edison" - The Inspiring Origin of the Boy Scouts - Happy Accidents - And much much more
Book Synopsis Tales of Trade Winds, Beaches, and Blue Waters by : Randall McCord
Download or read book Tales of Trade Winds, Beaches, and Blue Waters written by Randall McCord and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this semi-biographical work, R. D. McCord uses fifty-two loosely connected stories that document leaving a 1957 Northeast Alabama sharecropper farm for duty with the US Naval Security Group on the island of Oahu. The coming-of-age vignettes center on Hawaii’s last year as a territory and first as a state. Passing through the pages is a hodgepodge of twenty-odd characters that manned Bravo watch at radio station Wahiawa. For the better part of four years, the young sailors brought humor, camaraderie, romance, and adventure to the island, making the Navy and Hawaii a better place. The publication coincides closely with the sixty-second statehood anniversary of the paradisiacal islands. 96
Download or read book The Monzelli Tales written by John Gloske and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Monzelli came of age in the 1970s, an era now considered the Silver Age of Hollywood. He loved movies and was the consummate film buff. He collected movie stills, comic books, 16mm films and posters (including an original one for “Casablanca” worth thousands of dollars). He dressed like the characters he admired in his favorite films, and hung around film sets with the hope of becoming an actor. He also had a great love for good vodka and prostitutes, which caused more than just a few problems. Monzelli met and became friends with many of the cinema icons of the era, including Steve McQueen, Richard Burton, Sam Peckinpah, Bette Davis and many others; and he appeared as an extra in a handful of big-budget Hollywood films, more often than not because he would sneak onto the sets. These tales offer many hilarious and a few sad stories of a life built around one fan’s obsessive love of movies. John Gloske is a former film critic for The Hollywood Times. His previous book was the well-received Tough Kid: The Life and Films of Frankie Darro. He is a long-time small business owner in Los Angeles, California.
Book Synopsis Tales from the Jail by : Rohit Kumar
Download or read book Tales from the Jail written by Rohit Kumar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Jail: Christmas in Tihar & Other Stories
Download or read book Tijuana written by Federico Campbell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella and four stories set in Mexico. In the novella, Everything About Seals, a relationship is revealed through the act of a man stalking a woman. Of the stories, Tijuana Times is on a youth gang, and Anticipating Incorporation is on a man's military service.
Book Synopsis Tales from a Jail Cell by : Darvanni Autonomy
Download or read book Tales from a Jail Cell written by Darvanni Autonomy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales From A Jail Cell is the literary reality of prison drama. Devon Anderson, the convict trapped in a cell, finds freedom in telling his creative short stories of incarceration to a group of visitors touring the cell blocks. From serious, sad, to humorous situations, he captures the reality behind the barb wired fences and walls of prison. Just remember: When you enter here you're locked in until your time is up. Lock in America.
Book Synopsis Escape From Lecumberri by : Dwight Worker
Download or read book Escape From Lecumberri written by Dwight Worker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Dwight Worker's brutal imprisonment in the 'inescapable' Lecumberri Prison in Mexico City. The only person ever to have escaped from the 'Black Palace' of Lecumberri was Pancho Villa, in 1912. In Mexico, Dwight Worker met Barbara Chilcoate, whom he fell in love with and married. Together they devised a bold escape plan. They knew the odds, for Mexico had 'la ley de fuga', the law of escape. It was not illegal to try to escape from prison, as long as the would-be escapee did no violence against people and destroyed no state property. But if they caught him, they killed him. So any would be escapee had one and only one chance. The choices were either freedom or death. Read about how Dwight Worker ran this gauntlet to join Pancho Villa and become only the second person to escape from Lecumberri.
